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The bot scene - non-LLM bots - allowed, some rules - LLM bots - unworkable...
The bot scene - non-LLM bots - allowed, some rules - LLM bots - unworkable rules (socialpolitical polemics) or blanket ban And what do I find on mastodon.social? LLM bots that...
Researching Polyform Noncommercial License. - written by lawyers - it is a type...
Researching Polyform Noncommercial License. - written by lawyers - it is a type of open source - allows for a different business model than what OSI allows.
I'm guessing this guy helped the US army, left Afghanistan to avoid being...
I'm guessing this guy helped the US army, left Afghanistan to avoid being imprisoned/killed for helping the US army, and was expecting to be deported to be imprisoned/killed or...
IBM makes it clear that if you want to touch mainframe tech, for any reasons,...
IBM makes it clear that if you want to touch mainframe tech, for any reasons, you need to be a large organization, like military or government size & pipsqueek countries like...
This is the most interesting post I've read on . COBOL is an alternative syntax...
This is the most interesting post I've read on . COBOL is an alternative syntax to Assembler because of how COBOL at a syntax level lets you, makes you deal with memory like...
The experience of shopping for a home server has not improved. I finally ended...
The experience of shopping for a home server has not improved. I finally ended up with a new minipc on account of worries about noise, electricity use vs a similarly priced old...
Me shopping for a home server: It has to have 64GB Me picking a ec2 instance...
Me shopping for a home server: It has to have 64GB Me picking a ec2 instance type for my personal account: 500mb and 1/2 a cpu is plenty.
Personal Productivity Youtube: - Waay too much advice on how youtubers organize...
Personal Productivity Youtube: - Waay too much advice on how youtubers organize their youtube video creation process. - Ali Abdaal was rich, is rich and has a staff. With those...
This weekend I'm going to informally benchmark Gemini 3 by giving it code that...
This weekend I'm going to informally benchmark Gemini 3 by giving it code that 2.5 wrote and asking it to find bugs. Not the best benchmark because you could give 2.5 code that...
Today's meetings: All Hands All Heads All Shoulders All Knees
Today's meetings: All Hands All Heads All Shoulders All Knees
Optimistically speaking tho, the "Authoritarian Stack" is going to run into the...
Optimistically speaking tho, the "Authoritarian Stack" is going to run into the same "modernization" problem that normies have been dealing with for the last ~100 years since the...
I want to try out the new Visual Studio but I don't have 4 hours to spare to...
I want to try out the new Visual Studio but I don't have 4 hours to spare to wait for the installer to run. Time to try out Rider.
Context managers are very useful in writing XML in python. You can use the...
Context managers are very useful in writing XML in python. You can use the `__exit__()` method to delete the file. Another useful companion is StringIO. Write to stringIO and the...
Hold on, but what if you want your Java to be fast, you could rewrite it into...
Hold on, but what if you want your Java to be fast, you could rewrite it into COBOL. Then as soon as the rewite is done, modernize by translating into Java, then back to COBOL for...
Find people on mastodon, down to just a bunch of easy steps ```bash pipx...
Find people on mastodon, down to just a bunch of easy steps ```bash pipx install mastodon-finder mastodon-finder init nano finder.config nano .env mastodon-finder run ```
These licenses become untouchable because of license compatibility problems,...
These licenses become untouchable because of license compatibility problems, except in cases where the clauses are unenforcable anyhow. Maybe something along the line of...
"The PSF blog post says the plan was to build tools for automating [ ] package...
"The PSF blog post says the plan was to build tools for automating [ ] package reviews “rather than the current process of reactive-only review." This would be a fun crowdsourcing...
You got to remember, when talking to the general public, they probably are only...
You got to remember, when talking to the general public, they probably are only familiar with a few regex patterns, maybe just character classes and a few quantifier and...
It's alive! Mastodon finder will find you some accounts to follow. Works well...
It's alive! Mastodon finder will find you some accounts to follow. Works well for my usually strategy, I search for: techie + one of my interests, e.g. vegan software developer or...
Understanding US pol. There are 2 partisan views of how discrimination works: -...
Understanding US pol. There are 2 partisan views of how discrimination works: - everyone in your group is a white male. Why? - US Left: accidental discrimination. You never...
Everyone is so focused on AI, they forget about AWS Lambda whose main...
Everyone is so focused on AI, they forget about AWS Lambda whose main attraction is it allows developers to piss on modern programming practice. "You can't make me lint! pylint...
Environment variables are THE MOST FLEXIBLE configuration strategy ever. Just...
Environment variables are THE MOST FLEXIBLE configuration strategy ever. Just update your CDK code, the Docker image code. Do get 4 merge requests approved, Change Control Board,...